10.5 PBS airing: The Most Dangerous Man in America

In 1971, Daniel Ellsberg, a leading Vietnam War strategist, concludes that America’s role in the war is based on decades of lies. He leaks 7,000 pages of top-secret documents to //The New York Times//, a daring act of conscience that leads directly to Watergate, President Nixon’s resignation and the end of the Vietnam War. Ellsberg and a who’s-who of Vietnam-era movers and shakers give a riveting account of those world-changing events in POV’s **The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers** by award-winning filmmakers Judith Ehrlich (//The Good War and Those Who Refused to Fight It//) and Rick Goldsmith (//Tell the Truth and Run: George Seldes and the American
Press//). //A co-production of ITVS in association with American Documentary/POV.// (90 minutes)